The 2010 mine disaster, which killed 29 workers, and the cover-up by successive governments, demonstrate the urgent need for ...

One thousand feet underground, Mike Payton has come 200 feet away from where the victims of the 1968 Farmington No. 9 Mine ...

On the afternoon of 19 November 2010, an explosion ripped through the remote Pike River mine on the West Coast of the South ...

Ten days ago, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of water when a "sudden and substantial" flood sent ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey says crews have found the body of a coal miner who went missing when a mine flooded in West Virginia.

In 1959, miners in Pennsylvania faced a nightmare when the Susquehanna River broke into an underground coal mine. Water rushed in, trapping workers and destroying the industry in the region. This ...

Veteran coal miner and crew leader Steve Lipscomb, 38, was found dead in the Rolling Thunder mine at 7:30am on Thursday, five ...

KALUSALE, Zambia—The worst day of Bathsheba Musole’s life started with a deafening crash when the 30-foot wall around a toxic-waste pool collapsed at the Chinese copper mine above her village. A ...

Emergency rescue efforts are underway to save a worker who got trapped inside the flooded Rolling Thunder coal mine in West Virginia. | TAG24 ...